I have created a font extension in Jasper for noto-sans font (https://www.google.com/get/noto/#sans-lgc) and have added it to my classpath. And my application need to support fr, de, ja, ko, zh_CN, zh_TW, es ,en. But the generated pdf is not rendering (ja, ko, zh_CN, zh_TW). then I tried spliting the problem between jasper and itext so I tried with below program to check if iText is working correctly. import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import com.lowagie.text.Document; import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException; import com.lowagie.text.Font; import com.lowagie.text.Paragraph; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.BaseFont; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.ColumnText; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter; public class Itext_test { /** The resulting PDF file. */ public static final String RESULT = "fontTest.pdf"; /** the text to render. */ public static final String TEST = "사과-korean, 苹果(Chienses-simplified), 蘋果(Chinese-traditional), 林檎(Japanese), Sebastián(Spanish), ADÉLAÏDE-fr(French), James Bond(English)"; public void createPdf(String filename) throws IOException, DocumentException { Document document = new Document(); PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(filename)); document.open(); BaseFont bf = BaseFont.createFont( "NotoSans-Regular.ttf", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED); Font font = new Font(bf, 20); ColumnText column = new ColumnText(writer.getDirectContent()); column.setSimpleColumn(36, 730, 569, 36); column.addElement(new Paragraph(TEST, font)); column.go(); document.close(); } public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, DocumentException { new Itext_test().createPdf(RESULT); } }Below is the out pdf screenshot [![enter image description here][1]][1] [1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/IuHWS.pngSo as we can see ja, ko, zh_CN, zh_TW chars are `not being rendered`.I am using jaspersoft Studio to create the .jrxml file and populating it by java code. for more detail please checkout this question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40760733/unicode-characters-in-jasper-report?noredirect=1#comment68756527_40760733I don't know where and what to look for.<br> I would be very greatful if somebody could point out the error or put me in right direction...http://cdn.bizible.com/m/ipv?_biz_r=http%3A%2F%2Fcommunity.jaspersoft.com%2Fnode%2Fadd%2Fquestion&_biz_h=805002629&_biz_u=d2432028cb324aa4de16e18faa21708c&_biz_s=7e03bf&_biz_l=http%3A%2F%2Fcommunity.jaspersoft.com%2Fnode%2Fadd%2Fquestion&_biz_t=1480075514242&_biz_i=Rich%20text%20editor%2C%20edit-body-und-0-value&_biz_n=420&rnd=551611&cdn_o=a&_biz_z=1480075514243